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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: sending a mail file to inews
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.223903.28698@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1991 22:39:03 GMT
References: <1991Apr15.233624.11811@ssd.kodak.com> <1991Apr16.153753.2336@zoo.toronto.edu> <90894@becker.UUCP>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <90894@becker.UUCP> bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker) writes:
>|It's possible but not trivial.  News needs more headers (e.g., Newsgroups)
>|and is fussier about the format of headers...
>
>	I've been injecting a number of mail lists
>	into news here for a while - I use a shell
>	script that calls awk, which does the real
>	work.

A reasonable approach.  Does your shell/awk combo deal with things like
parenthesized comments where they aren't allowed in news?  The real test
of a gateway is how it copes with extreme cases, not whether it handles
the typical ones easily.  It's not as simple as it looks.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry